George Westinghouse Jr. Birthplace and Boyhood Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Birthplace and Boyhood Home is a historic home located at Central Bridge in Schoharie County, New York. The property includes two 19th-century residences, two small barns, a well house and privy, as well as the site of a combined blacksmith shop and threshing machine works.”
Wikipedia article George Westinghouse Jr. Birthplace and Boyhood Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Westinghouse, George, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Westinghouse Rd., Central Bridge, 12092
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Town. Schoharie town
National Register reference number. 86000489 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

102 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of George Westinghouse Jr. Birthplace and Boyhood Home between 1999 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of George Westinghouse Jr. Birthplace and Boyhood Home: 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Strontium, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Schoharie Pyrite Deposit	Sulfur, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Howes Cave Number 6 Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schoharie Strontianite Deposit	Strontium, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Schoharie Strontianite Occurrence	Strontium	Occurrence
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Howes Cave Number 6 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central Bridge, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Central Bridge	$2,000	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Central Bridge	-	A few trees were reported down on Junction Road near the Hamlet of Central Bridge.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Central Bridge	-	A large tree was reported down in Central Bridge due to strong thunderstorm winds. This fallen tree closed Grovenors Corners Road.
June 2002	Hail	Central Bridge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1900 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Schoharie quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Daniel Webster Jenkins House	0.4 miles	2018
Abraham Sternberg House	1.4 miles	2010
Colyer House, The	2.0 miles	2008
Col. Peter Vroman House	2.5 miles	2019
Old Stone Fort	2.7 miles	2002
Schoharie Valley Railroad Complex	2.9 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.